Paul Johnson created MNG-6923:
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Summary: Getting started guide is a bit stale
Key: MNG-6923
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6923
Project: Maven
Issue Type: Wish
Reporter: Paul Johnson
WRT [https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/]
First of all sorry if this is the wrong place to discuss, I don’t want to waste
contributors time managing tickets, I did consider the mailing list but thought
an issue seemed more appropriate.
I’m starting to write a Java library for a client and thought I had best
refresh my understanding of the Java dependency / build management ecosystem so
I figured I would run through the quick start guide.
One would hope this would be painless for newbies but sadly at almost every
step fails.
For example on the first step
h3. How do I make my first Maven project?
{code:java}
$ mvn -B archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes
-DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app
$ mvn compile
# [ERROR] Source option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.
# [ERROR] Target option 5 is no longer supported. Use 7 or later.
{code}
Obviously the fix is trivial and luckily for me I already know how to resolve
it but others following along may not and will have to hunt around on the
Internet to solve the problem.
If newbie sticks around and fixes the issues with compile phase then test phase
works OK as does package, so next up in the guide is
{code:java}
$ mvn site
{code}
This spits out 220 lines of scary looking stuff (stack trace + error logging).
Again the fix is simple just specify modern version of maven site plug-in but I
could forgive a newbie for saying bugger this and looking into gradle instead.
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